Promoting Propaganda For The White House
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There can be no doubt that Americans are fortunate enough to be governed by a brilliantly conceived Constitution drafted by remarkable, intelligent men. Unfortunately, too many Americans are utterly ignorant of what it contains and how it impacts on their lives. Voter ignorance on this and so much else contributes to the ease with which the media manipulates public opinion into believing things which are not so. In this they play into the hands of a childishly narcissistic president who despises the values upon which our country was based, a man who repeatedly pokes our allies and us in the eyes to show that he can deeply offend without penalty.
A recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania found that a majority of Americans are unaware of what is considered basic knowledge of the Constitution.
This information, which was released Wednesday, comes on the cusp of the 228th anniversary of Constitution Day (Sept. 17).
Here are some of the most surprising findings from the survey
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2) This Ill-Educated Public Is Remarkably Susceptible to Media Manipulation and the Ahmed Mohamed Case This Week is a Prime Example
Ahmed Mohamed is a young student in Texas who came to school with what he said was a homemade digital clock in a lunch box .It was very suspicious looking.
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The left-wing media quickly followed its customary stance of reporting baseless narratives in which Americans are portrayed as hopelessly racist and Islamophobic.
The Daily Signal, however, noted 9 other cases where students not Moslem and not named Mohamed were treated like criminals.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto also listed numerous incidents of overreaching by school administrators under the “zero tolerance” mandates even before 9/11 and affecting students of all races and backgrounds. He detailed the narrative (that is, fairytale) of Islamophobia Ahmed’s father (well-connected to Moslem activists) peddled to a press delighted to megaphone it for him:
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Writing in National Review, Kevin Williamson concludes “Being mistreated by imbeciles is the sine qua non of American public education today." But he asks a perfectly relevant question: “Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what would happen if a young man showed up at the White House visitors’ center with a backpack in which was a homemade device full of circuit boards joined to a timing device? I do not frequent the White House, but I often am in the House and Senate office buildings in Washington, and my best guess is that if I’d tried to bring Mohamed’s clock into one of those places, there would have been guns drawn.”
3) The Invitation to The White House is More than Merely Moral Preening: It’s a Sign of the President’s Continued Contempt for Americans
Some have tried to make it appear that Ahmed ’s invitation to the White House is in part related to his engineering genius --- an effort to reward and encourage other young Moslem science students to excel.
The story doesn’t wash.
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Was this a setup by his father and local Moslem activists or an unfortunately common school system mishap? Whichever it was it was not Islamophobia, and the invitation to the White House to suggest it was is of a piece with Obama’s performance when Skip Gates was arrested for what seemed to be a house break-in, when Trayvon Martin was shot while trying to beat up someone, when Michael Brown was shot after robbing a convenience store, attacking a cop, and trying to steal his gun.
It’s so obvious that even the thirteen-year-old middle school student, Coreco Ja Quan Pearson catches on.
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The list of offenses to public sentiment could go on:
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The Vatican has objected. So should we all for Obama’s consistently churlish and offensive behavior.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/9_18_2015_23_12.html
September 20, 2015
Pulling Our Strings and Poking Us in the Eyes: The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale
By Clarice Feldman
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